Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1887-08-19

Wanted. "A gentleman of parts: one
who Is quick wiited. highly educated and
OF broad experience. A good and quick
shot with pistol, and who can strike
from the shoulder when necessary. He
must be familiar with the mechanic arts;
well up In ancient and modern literature:
be able to answer any question on any
subject, at any time. 1t is quite necessary
be should enjoy sleeping In the open air,
tcheR he does sleep, and grow fat on diet
composed of saw dust, wind pudding and
taffy. He must be pleasing, affable. and
gentlemanly in his address. and at the
same time able and willing TO fog any
body that comes aleng spelling for fight
| One possessing at least ten thousand dol
lars capital and who has the rery common
ability Of being uble 20 run Newspaper 10
/ satisfy eoeTy10dy. Former experience in
/ running a newspaper quite unnecessary.
the great essential being the ten thousand
dollars. Any gentleman having the above
qualifications may hear of good oppor
tunity, by applying at this Office" We are
induced TO insert the above bona fide an
nouncement from the fact that we have
met with so many individuals who are Tin
their own opinion) 50 much better quail
| fed to run this paper than ourselves. -
Men who are ready 70 attack every seem .
ing public abuse without fear of the con-
| sequences. Men who would suppress
every well established report that did not
happen to suit their own ideas of proprie-
| ty, and yet, at the same time, publish all
| the neWs. Men who could double the cir
culation of this paper in no time, as it
were-all they seemed to lack, besides
common sense, was the necessary ten
thousand dollars and in most instances q
good deal less than that sum. We have
| been confused and dazed sometimes by
our experience. One man rushes in and
wants his paper stopped-"too much Bill
lingsgate to suit HIM" We make him
point out the article that has too much
Billingsgate, and find 1t to be an item of
news, sad In itself, yet couched in uneb-
jectionable language and teaching good
moral lesson. At another time certain
members OF an association who had the
gratuitous use of the major portion of our
columns for quite time, took umbrage
because they could not have the whole,
and two or three OF them dropped their
subscription. Again, in comes another
fellow with an article to be printed right
Off" We use our editorial privilege of
adapting II to our columns. 1t is printed,
and in rushes the indignant author with
the cry: You have garbled my article
rather you had mt published it at all.
Now you just stop my paper" And so it
goes on. But there is a law OF compensa-
tion, and we have noticed that almost in
variably when we have lost subscriber,
under the above circumstances, two or
three new ones are almost sure to come in
and with the cash and smiling counte.
nances commend us for that very particu
lar line of conduct. Two political oppo-
nents drop into our Office, one after the
other, both cant a puf. We give them
splendid puff each. and 10 ! neither are
satisfied. And so II is. We have not been
able to run this paper 10 suit everybody,
but II tie man tcho can, will only come
along with the essential ten thousand we
will gladly take minor position on the
editorial staff and at the same time take a
rest.